By

Jared Rhoads

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What is wrong with healthcare in America, and how can we fix it?

In one sense, fixing healthcare is an easy problem to address. Fundamentally, it is the lack of free markets and individual rights in healthcare that is at the root of why costs and spending are rising out of control and the reason why we have seemingly less choice and freedom in medicine. However, while it is important for one to ground one's views in these abstract principles, it is also necessary to examine how they play out in specific, concrete issues that arise. Principles must be applied if advocates of free-market healthcare are to make progress.

This book is a collection of brief articles on various issues and topics that came to the forefront of the healthcare debate from 2005 to 2012.

Contents:

If we didn’t socialize healthcare costs, we wouldn’t need a soda tax

The individual mandate insults those who would self-insure

One small win over the Commerce Clause, one giant defeat for health policy

If you want to prevent a doctor shortage, get the government out of medicine

Let the market determine which treatments are effective

Patient privacy and the National Health Information Network

Partial government control doesn’t work, but more government control will?

Behind single-payer: administrative savings or healthcare rationing?

An opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to defend itself

Healthcare in the 2008 Presidential election

McCain is right about ending employer-based insurance, but he won’t win

How much countries spend on healthcare is not of fundamental importance

Let people pay organ donors!

Doctors are ill-equipped to defend themselves

Technology is not the problem in America’s battle with healthcare spending

Cuban healthcare is no model for the United States

Healthcare rationing, Canadian-style

When it comes to health insurance, let’s leave employers out of it

Patients versus the new Medicare drug coverage benefit

Price controls lead to shortages

So prescription drugs are now part of a federal entitlement

End the guild system that is constraining the medical profession

Antitrust laws do not make any sense in healthcare either

About the Author

Jared Rhoads is a senior healthcare researcher for a healthcare technology company, and a health policy writer and analyst. His writings have appeared in numerous healthcare industry publications, including Healthcare Informatics, Health Data Management, Healthcare Finance News, Managed Healthcare Executive, KevinMd.com, and others. He holds a Master of Science degree from Bentley University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.